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How were Francisco Goya’s Black Paintings moved from the walls to the Prado Museum?
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Francisco Goya
Detail of Self-portrait, etching by Francisco Goya from the series Los caprichos, 1799.
Francisco Goya painted his famous "Black Paintings" directly onto the plaster walls of his country house, the Quinta del Sordo, between 1819 and 1823. Because these works were created as private, interior decorations and were not intended for public display, they remained on the walls of the house for decades.12
It was only later that the paintings were removed from the walls, transferred to canvas, and subsequently deposited in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, where they are currently held.2